COLON TOWNSHIP, MI -- St. Joseph County deputies followed their noses to a marijuana grow operation Saturday.

According to a news release from the St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office, deputies were patrolling an area when the odor of marijuana led them to a home in the 32000 block of Custer Road in Colon Township.

The occupants of the home consented to a police search. Officers seized 55 marijuana plants, as well as equipment to grow the plants, in an outbuilding.

Charges of manufacturing marijuana are pending against a 31-year-old man and 29-year-old woman.